 also known as the wasting of the woods elf rot is the disease claimed to be possessed by celes it is said to be a rare disease affecting a small percentage of elf half-elves and its symptoms appear to be weakness and general aches with occasional nausea the disease is apparantly eventually fatal though the lady was able to provide celes with a treatment to help ease her symptoms this disease is in fact the invention of celes used as her excuse for not holding down a proper job and instead being involved in the thievery life 